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Unlike a lot of them, he's going to get a chance to show an NHL team what he can do this week.

Hobbs, a 24-year-old from Shawville, was invited to the Senators rookie camp a couple of weeks ago and after skating with the young prospects Wednesday, it's off to London for a four-day camp.

It's an opportunity his older brother Matthew got three years ago.

"He told me to enjoy the experience, just have fun," said Hobbs. "I'm ecstatic to be here. I wasn't really expecting it. To get this opportunity to showcase myself and to play with guys at this level is only going to showcase my game.

"There's definitely pressure, but I'm treating it like another tryout. There are nerves, but I don't think that's a bad thing."

Hobbs was selected in the seventh round of the 2007 draft by the New York Rangers.

He played four years of college hockey at U Mass-Amherst, before winding up with the ECHL's Greenville Road Warriors last season.

He agreed to a deal with Binghamton-Elmira this off-season.

So if he doesn't crack the AHL B-Sens roster, he'll be with the ECHL's Jackals.

"I want to make the American League. That's the first step," he said. "It's one step at a time. I have a year under my belt so I'm looking forward to the next step."

If he gets a chance to wear the hometown colours, that would be awesome.

"It's pretty easy to be a Senators fan when you're only an hour away," he said.

Danny Hobbs of Shawville gets shot at Sens rookie camp

Unlike a lot of them, he's going to get a chance to show an NHL team what he can do this week.

Hobbs, a 24-year-old from Shawville, was invited to the Senators rookie camp a couple of weeks ago and after skating with the young prospects Wednesday, it's off to London for a four-day camp.

It's an opportunity his older brother Matthew got three years ago.

"He told me to enjoy the experience, just have fun," said Hobbs. "I'm ecstatic to be here. I wasn't really expecting it. To get this opportunity to showcase myself and to play with guys at this level is only going to showcase my game.

"There's definitely pressure, but I'm treating it like another tryout. There are nerves, but I don't think that's a bad thing."

Hobbs was selected in the seventh round of the 2007 draft by the New York Rangers.